Putin critic Navalny sent to solitary confinement for washing face too early

                                  

Renowned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said he was placed in solitary confinement for the 10th time since he was sentenced to jail in March – this time for reportedly washing his face around 30 minutes before he was scheduled to, the dissident said on his Instagram profile Monday.   
Navalny said he was placed in solitary just before the start of the New Year's Holiday. “My plans for a fancy New Year’s Eve were ruined – I had prepared a pack of potato chips and a can of fish [to celebrate],” Navalny wrote on Instagram.

Navalny added that one of his cellmates was sent to a medical ward before being sent back to Navalny’s cell a day later – a practice Navalny said was routine in the prison as a means of infecting inmates.


“Unfortunately, the bacteriological weapon worked. Navalny is now in a SHU cell with a fever and cough. We’re trying to give him medicine,” Navalny’s lawyer Vadim Kobzev said in a tweet Monday.